Ryan Bingham American Love Song 2LP (Vinyl)

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Award-Winning Texas Singer/Songwriter's Sixth Studio Album On Double LP!
Features The Song "Wolves"!

Award-winning singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham's highly anticipated sixth studio album finds Bingham honing his creativity on two distinct levels, the personal and the cultural. The record is co-produced with Charlie Sexton, the superb Austin guitarist who has played for years in Bob Dylan's touring band. American Love Song was recorded at Arlyn Studios and Public Hi-Fi in Austin with additional recording at Matter Music/Stella Sound in Los Angeles.

From the beginning of his recording career, with Mescalito, Bingham has defied easy classification. As a rising country star, he ranged from Woody Guthrie-style folk songs and Spanish-language balladry to gritty hard rock. It's all American music; fittingly, he was honored as the Americana Music Association's 2010 Artist of the Year. He's enjoyed thrilling highs and suffered debilitating lows, sometimes all at once. While his career was taking off – he won both an Oscar and a Grammy for "The Weary Kind", the theme song he wrote for the film Crazy Heart – he was coping with the tragic deaths of his mother, an alcoholic, and his father, who took his own life. The losses put Bingham in a dark tunnel, and it took a while to crawl his way out. With the help of his wife, Anna Axster, and some inner soul-searching, Bingham has come back into the light. American Love Song, the third studio album from the Axster-Bingham indie label (after 2012's Tomorrowland and 2015's Fear and Saturday Night), takes all his influences – both musical and experiential – and unites them in Ryan Bingham's best, most fully realized record to date.

From the opening track – the spry "Jingle and Go", which recounts his early years as an itinerant open-mic performer working, like the great Texas bluesmen before him, for tips – to the closer, "Blues Lady", a tribute to Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Bingham's own late mother, and all the other strong women this country has produced, the album combines autobiographical reflection with a bittersweet celebration of our collective spirit in the face of enduring difficulties. Bingham's growing concerns about where we're at as a people come to a head on "America", the album's somber, instantly memorable signature song. Is there still an American dream, he asks, his voice rising to a poignant pitch. These 15 new songs from one of American music's most distinct voices answer that simple question with a resounding "Yes!"



Features:
• Double LP
• Gatefold jacket
• Limited time download code

Selections:
Side A:
1. Jingle And Go
2. Nothin' Holds Me Down
3. Pontiac
4. Lover Girl
Side B:
1. Beautiful And Kind
2. Situation Station
3. Got Damn Blues
4. Time For My Mind
Side C:
1. What Would I've Become
2. Wolves
3. Blue
Side D:
1. Hot House
2. Stones
3. America
4. Blues Lady